TPB AFK: How The Pirate Bay Is Legally Shielded By The Pirate Party

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A new teaser trailer for the upcoming movie TPB AFK – The Pirate Bay, Away From Keyboard – was just released. In the teaser, Peter “Brokep” Sunde describes the cat-and-mouse game between the legal side and technical side, and the rationale for using the Pirate Party as ISP. From our side in the Pirate Party, this was a very interesting and politically provocative (i.e. good) move.

The trailer describes the steps leading up to when the Swedish Pirate Party became the Internet Service Provider for The Pirate Bay, something that is still the case. (You can verify this by doing a traceroute to The Pirate Bay – the last visible host in the chain should still be thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se, as it was in 2010.)

We actually went a step further, and also promised to host The Pirate Bay from the inside of parliament if elected, using the constitutional parliamentary immunity for political activity in parliament. Since we had stated that promise as an election promise (widely coveredinmedia), it would meet all requirements for being political activity, and therefore constitutionally protected.

Teaser trailer:

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About The Author: Rick Falkvinge

Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. He has a tech entrepreneur background and loves whisky.

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Very cool, I had heard something about the PP being used as the ISP before, but had gotten the impression that it was a temporary move, I’m glad that they continue to host the Pirate Bay, and that, so far, there have not been any raids by the US government on grounds that US law applies to the Swedish Parliment. : P

I’m very much looking forward to the release of the documentary next month, it should be interesting.

Just to be clear currently the Pirate Bay is hosting in bunch of different places including as encrypted traffic on cloud services, but without the Swedish Pirate Party stepping up when they did the Pirate Bay would not have been as resilient as it is.

About The Author

Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. He has a tech entrepreneur background and loves whisky.